Is Grease enough?

[Chuck731]

Is grease enough when putting bottom bracket into a Ti frame? Or is something like Ti Prep necessary?

 

[artmichalek]

You can get anti-sieze at an auto parts store that works just as well as Ti-Prep and costs a lot less. The biggest difference between anti-sieze and regular grease is that it has small metal (moslty copper) particles suspended in it to interfere with friction welding between the two metals.

 

[fish156]

Is grease enough when putting bottom bracket into a Ti frame? Or is something like Ti Prep necessary?

Mark Hickey of Habenero says to use teflon tape and regular grease. I have done that on two Ti bikes and it works great. Many people just use grease (as suggested by our old friend Boudreaux) and many more will use Ti-Prep or anti-seize. If you do some kind of regular maintenance on your bike, any of those methods should work fine. I have found that the places that you really need Ti-Prep are the other places where bolts thread into a Ti frame - like the bottle cage bolts and the RD fixing bolt. I have used grease in both of those spots, but prefer Ti-Prep.